ATOM BIGGS: ROCK MUSIC

[Dan Ellis <dpwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear List -

Do any of you know of actual research relevant to this question?
Thanks.

  DAn.

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From: "ATOM BIGGS" <forbiggs@email.msn.com>
To: <dpwe@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: ROCK MUSIC
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:03:51 -0700

Dan Ellis:

Dr. Al Bregman said you might be able to help me, or at least send out a
post on your "auditory" e-mail list.  I'm involved in a discussion over
the topic of "rock music".  It's being said that the syncopated beats of
rock music create physiological desires for sex and violence which
completely offsets any altruistic message that a rock song might
contain.  Does this reasoning have any credence whatsoever?  My
understanding is that, apart from the lyrics, music's effect on thoughts
and moods vary greatly from person to person and culture to culture.
What is your insight on this?  Do you know of any related research?

atom biggs    forbiggs@mail.wsu.edu

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